Final Exam Link

- Your final exam link will be found here on Exam day:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dGg0c2ZQOGFKR0RudEtvZTk0UHQtakE6MA

Here are the pictures for the final exam: http://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AaoG5TaoiHZMZGMyajl0cHFfMTk4ZjMzNjR2dnc&hl=en

Final Exam Rules:

• you may use internet
• you may use your study guide (10 pts bonus for full completion)
• you may NOT use other students or other students study guides
• you may NOT wander to other computers or have your gmail chat boxes open with other students

Monday and Tuesday December 14-15

Science Agenda:

If you don't get asked to login, try this: https://filter.pky.ufl.edu:8081/AuthenticationServer/AuthenticationForm.jsp?error=453&IP=10.5.73.254&URL=http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/&ac=11260881351261

1. Alien Jelly fish found! http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/12/photogalleries/091211-alien-jellyfish-pictures-arctic/index.html

2. Study Day - Here are my recommendations:

• fill out science study guide
• Do science work from last class
• Do science make-up work
• Study guides for another class

3. If you are unfocused: watch this and you will feel better (seriously, don't watch this, it is a sick interpretation of Makenzie's MIND!!!) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlNw5ZuDYsk

Agenda Thursday and Friday December 10-11

Science Agenda

1. Watch the video above. Put down the 4 most important things (you decided) into your BLOG for today. We will go back to the blog later. (20 pts)


1. List 4 differences (in your evernote page) between plant cells and animal cells: Use this w5ebsite:http://www.cellsalive.com/cells/cell_model.htm (20 pts)


3. Problem solving -(on your Blog) how does an organism grow? Bigger cells or more cells? Cite your answers (10 pts) -


4. Mitosis - How cells divide?http://www.cellsalive.com/mitosis.htm

4.7 - Go to http://www.queeky.com/app/ and draw the steps of mitosis. Here is how you put it on a document:

• draw your work
• goto file, then download the image to you comptuer - choose desktop
• then open google docs
• choose "new presentation"
• press the upload image button
• choose your image that you saved to the desktop
• paste the image and you can add text boxes to label the parts
  
  4. 5 - Use the microscope to examine what you see in the slides provided. What sort of cells do you see? Use drawings, pictures from the internet or words to give descriptions - This is done on your Blog (20 pts)
  
  5. Next job - animate the steps of mitosis - label the parts of the cell (100pts)
  
  


• label important parts of a cell (eukaryotic)


• show the 6 steps of mitosis


• choose a way to animate (powerpoint - flip book style, something else)

Tuesday and Wednesday December 8-9

Agenda - Last work day before you get new stuff

Read this and post into your evenote page: http://www.gainesville.com/article/20091208/ARTICLES/912081002/1118?Title=UF-s-McKnight-Brain-Institute-lands-2-4M-grant-to-study-regeneration-
Finish things in this order

• glogster (with citations)


• find scientist and put scientist on my spreadsheet


• compose and send email


• make the changes your scientists recommends


• send a polite reply (let me see it)


• Start paper on protists -GO IN ORDER OR SCIENTIFIC PROCESS


• Make spreadsheet for "record results" - if you identify 5 protists, it is an 'A' (as long as the rest of your paper is good"


• Look below to yesterdays class to help identify protists


• Have your paper peer reviewed by one classmate and put their name at the bottom : here is some 'A' work"http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AYc9dh1pybFqZGRjeDljcjhfMTNnY2hyeDljOA&hl=en

Monday Decmeber 7

Agenda for Monday (go in this order)
1. Finish glogster (let me see it)
2. Find scientist
3. Compose and send email (let me see this)
4. Start the first 4 sections of your scientific paper
5. Use microscopes to view and identify protists
6. Fill out spreadsheet (the Record Results section)
7. Finish paper on protists (let me see it)
8. Become a coach for someone else

Here is a place that is about as good as the book at identifying protists - http://www.microscope-microscope.org/applications/pond-critters/pond-critters.htm

Here is a begining of what will be on your final exam - look for a couple of minor changes over this week, but not much. http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AaoG5TaoiHZMZGMyajl0cHFfMTk1ZnRwdmNuZ2I&hl=en

Here is some 'A' paper : http://docs.google.com/View?id=dcj5vvfb_17cq7qbmgk

Tuesday and Wednesday December 1-2

Science Agenda:

1. Check out this movie - Math and Tigers don't mix, or do they? http://www.fliqz.com/aspx/permalink.aspx?vid=68640ec368344c5caafb1f87eee50bcc

2. Top things to do:

• finish Glogster for good


• send email to scientist TODAY!


• Complete paper on protists - Identify 5 and you get an 'A' - must be confirmed by me - there is a spreadsheet example on previous agendas

3. Quiz Quiz Trade - Brain Break

4. Grade Sheets Due at end of class

5. Other things to do -

• Find another scientist if you do not have a response
• Write your reply and have it checked by me

Monday and Tuesday November 23-24

Science Agenda

1. Today is a work day.

1.5 - Have your email response to your scientist (if they wrote to you) checked by me before sending. Always copy me on the email when you contact a scientist.

2. You should be using the microscopes and investigating pond water. Here is an example of 'A' work spreadsheet! http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=t18idipi8OmIcgT4IxBx9XQ&output=html

2.5. Put some information in your evernote about these protist "main characters" - Stentor, paramecium, aboeba, spirogyra, blepharisma, paranema - also, these guys even though they are not protists - rotifer, daphnia,

3. Write your scientific paper on pond water investigations.

4. Look at ealier agendas to see what tasks you have.

5. Here is something cool: click on "camera trap" and see what they got on film: http://www.worldwildlife.org/species/camera-traps/ecuador/amazoncameratrap.html

7. Here is the data from our water testing in the creek. Copy and save this into your own google docs account so we can do something with it later. http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AaoG5TaoiHZMZGMyajl0cHFfMTk0Y3d2cDl4N2I&hl=en